Listening Session & Talk: Andrea Zarza Canova with Raheel Khan
This in-conversation and listening session with artist Raheel Khan and curator Andrea Zarza Canova extended their ongoing discussions around sound and sonic histories relating to cultures and communities. The event provided an opportunity to unpack Khan’s practice, particularly as connected to the exhibition Memory Police, on view at Goldsmiths CCA, which sees Khan create a constellation of new works that engage with ideas of safety and paranoia, against the backdrop of shifting political realities in the UK.
Exhibition on view from 6:30pm.
Talk start at 7pm.
BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Zarza Canova is a curator, archivist, and AHRC-funded PhD researcher based in London, working with historical sound recordings through exhibitions, publishing, and radio to connect archives of sound with political, social, and cultural histories. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary, where she recently co-curated the exhibition and associated live programme Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen. The exhibition explored how sound travels and transitions through cross-cultural identities, histories, and futures, featuring artworks that “listen back” to uncover muted histories while also creating new moments to receive and hold historical dissonance.
She has delivered talks, listening sessions, and curated exhibitions internationally, including with NTS Radio, Relativa Radio, Southbank Centre, Somerset House, Rhubaba Gallery, nGbK, CentroCentro, TBA21, Sandberg Instituut and Pirelli HangarBicocca, amongst others. She co-ran the record label Mana from 2016 to 2023, and recently launched traza, releasing Un-Muting by Satch Hoyt on 3 October 2025.
This in-conversation and listening session with artist Raheel Khan and curator Andrea Zarza Canova extended their ongoing discussions around sound and sonic histories relating to cultures and communities. The event provided an opportunity to unpack Khan’s practice, particularly as connected to the exhibition Memory Police, on view at Goldsmiths CCA, which sees Khan create a constellation of new works that engage with ideas of safety and paranoia, against the backdrop of shifting political realities in the UK.
Exhibition on view from 6:30pm.
Talk start at 7pm.
BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Zarza Canova is a curator, archivist, and AHRC-funded PhD researcher based in London, working with historical sound recordings through exhibitions, publishing, and radio to connect archives of sound with political, social, and cultural histories. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary, where she recently co-curated the exhibition and associated live programme Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen. The exhibition explored how sound travels and transitions through cross-cultural identities, histories, and futures, featuring artworks that “listen back” to uncover muted histories while also creating new moments to receive and hold historical dissonance.
She has delivered talks, listening sessions, and curated exhibitions internationally, including with NTS Radio, Relativa Radio, Southbank Centre, Somerset House, Rhubaba Gallery, nGbK, CentroCentro, TBA21, Sandberg Instituut and Pirelli HangarBicocca, amongst others. She co-ran the record label Mana from 2016 to 2023, and recently launched traza, releasing Un-Muting by Satch Hoyt on 3 October 2025.
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